Improvement in car-seats



BOOTH & RIPLEY.

Car Seat.

Patented Nov.H, 1851.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EZEKIEL BOOTH AND EZRA RIPLEY, OF TROY, NETV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-SEATS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 8,508, dated hloveniber11, 1851.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EZEKIEL BooTH and EZRA RIPLEY, of Troy, in thecounty of Reusselaer and State of New York, have invented a certain newand useful Improvement in the Mode of Reversing High-Back (or Night)Car-Seats; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the construction and operation of the same,reference being had to the annexed drawings, which make a part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the seat, andFig. 2 is a view of one arm, taken in a cross-section inside of the armwith the back in a horizontal position, as in the act of reversing fromone side of the seat to the other, the same letters having reference tolike parts in both figures.

Our invention consists in the arrangement of two levers A A, on whichthe back B is sus pended and reversed from one side of the seat C to theother, which levers cross each other and are secured by pivots a a tothe arms D D, and to the back at Z) I). Then the back is in its positionfor use, as in Fig. 1, one lever eX- tends across the arm in or nearlyin a horizontal position and the other inclines to a vertical position.The lever in the horizontal position rests upon a stop-pin c and retainsthe back in its proper position. Thus the center of the back is securedat any required distance above the arms, and the required height of backis obtained, so as to be reversible, and shall not necessarily extendbelow the seat on either side.

Having thus described the nature of our invention, what we claim as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of two levers in a cross position, so as that anyrequired height of back may be carried and reversed from and to eitherside of the seat and secure it firmly in its position at any requiredangle, substantially the same as described and represented.

' EZEKIEL BOOTH.

EZRA RIPLEY. Witnesses:

E. L. BRUNDAGE, A. SNYDER.

